Kudos! To UTSA's brightest and best
(Oct. 29, 2004)--Kudos! acknowledges UTSA faculty, staff, students and alumni for all the things they do -- whether it's achieving great things in work, education and community service, receipt of a well-deserved award, publication of a book or article, recognition for respected research findings, or daily dedication and hard work.
Today's headlines
- UTSA music department hosts 'Holiday Cabaret'
- UTSA Hillel hosts Dec. 4 'Jazzy Chanukah'
- UTSA physics Ph.D. program is Star finalist
- Banking conversion team honored for success
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Students
Anne Kadrie, a UTSA interdisciplinary studies student seeking fourth-eighth grade teacher certification, is a recent recipient of the $2,500 TASPA scholarship. Although the Texas Association of School Personnel Administrators (TASPA) has awarded a scholarship to one to three students each year since 1989, this is the first year a UTSA student has received the scholarship. TASPA promotes and encourages positive school personnel practices designed to recruit, develop and retain individuals of the highest quality within the Texas public school system. To assist individuals entering the teaching profession, TASPA has established a very competitive scholarship program to financially assist college students seeking teaching certification.
A committee organized by Michelle Detiveaux Rodriguez, career counselor for the College of Education and Human Development and Pam Wood, coordinator of undergraduate student services, nominated Kadrie. The committee was composed of faculty members in COEHD; Janet Scott, student teaching director; Diane Bauer, senior program coordinator and Maria Kaylor, assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies and curriculum studies. UTSA is allowed to submit one applicant to compete for the award, which is given during the student's last year of school. Kadrie competed with 20 UTSA students and university students around Texas with TAEE memberships.
Lluvia Sanchez and Angelica Barajas, two students from the Campus Activities Board, were selected to serve on the stage crew at the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) Central Conference in Arlington, Texas from Oct. 27 to Oct. 31. They will helpe with set-up, event production and load-out for the performers throughout the conference. Students from college and university programming boards in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado will also be in attendance.
Ten Incarnate Word Retirement Community Residents visited UTSA Oct. 9, to be interviewed by students enrolled in Joanne McKinnis'freshman seminar class. McKinnis' students are participating in an oral history service-learning project that involves interviewing elderly residents about their cultural heritage and producing books about their stories. Students visited Locke Hill Elementary Oct. 22 to engage fourth grade students in creating illustrations for these books. Upon completion, copies of the books will be provided to the Incarnate Word Retirement Community and Locke Hill Elementary School. For more information about the project, or the Service-Learning Program at UTSA, contact Pamela Neumann, program coordinator for service-learning, at (210) 458-2812.
Faculty and Staff
Thelma Duffey, associate professor and director of the counseling program in the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, Adult and Higher Education (CEPAHE); Norma Guerra, assistant professor of educational psychology in CEPHAE; Earle Reybold, associate professor of adult and higher education in CEPAHE; Mariela Rodriguez, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies; and Tiffanye Vargas-Tonsing, assistant professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology in the College of Education and Human Development have all been selected for an instructional technology fellowship. During a year-long program, which is hosted by the UTSA TechConnect project, faculty fellows recipients will work together to focus on discovering ways of effectively integrating instructional technologies into specific fields of higher education.
Mark Allen, professor in the Department of English, Classics and Philosophy, will receive the Modern Language Association (MLA) Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography for his work, "Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 1986-1996," co-edited with Bege K. Bowers. Allen will receive the award Dec. 28 at the 2004 MLA Convention in Philadelphia.
Kevin Grant, assistant professor of management in the UTSA College of Business, received a $74,831 research grant from the NASA Center for Program/Project Management Research. The grant will fund a collaborative effort between researchers at UTSA and the Challenger Learning Center (CLC) at Brooks City-Base, which runs simulated space missions to foster interest in science and engineering among middle school students. "The research team will leverage the assets of the CLC to develop an innovative hands-on learning program to impart project management skills, with a particular emphasis on techniques to recognize, elicit and apply team member expertise," said Grant, who was also selected to serve as a fellow of the NASA Center for Program/Project Management Research. Grant is the principal investigator of the project, while Michael Bauman, assistant professor of psychology at UTSA, is co-investigator. UTSA was one of eight institutions awarded these grants through a competitive, peer-review process to study the issue.
Jan Clark, professor of information systems in the UTSA College of Business, received more than $500,000 in grants from the Department of Defense for information assurance awards. The grants were awarded to support scholarships and internships at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels, as well as capacity building for department programs to fund faculty, laboratory and curriculum development in the areas of cyber forensics and biometric technologies. "UTSA is committed to becoming a premier site for producing quality information assurance and security talent and supporting IAS research and development," said Clark, a certified information systems security professional who has taught at UTSA for four years and whose teaching and research interests are in the fields of telecommunications and infrastructure security.
Nandini Kannan was named chair of the Department of Management Science and Statistics and promoted to professor in the UTSA College of Business. Her three-year appointment began Aug. 1. Kannan has taught at UTSA for more than 10 years at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and was instrumental in developing the college's new undergraduate degree program in actuarial science. She received the college's faculty award for overall faculty in 2003 in recognition of her accomplishments in teaching, research and service. A member of the advisory committee on continuing education for the American Statistical Association, Kannan is president of the San Antonio chapter of the American Statistical Association. Her primary field of research is statistical signal processing, while her other research interests include reliability and life-testing experiments and modeling decompression sickness using survival analysis.
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